Pulmonary arterial embolization of pacemaker lead electrode tip

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 784-787

  Eckart, Robert E ^a   Hruczkowski, Tomasz W ^a   Landzberg, Michael J ^a   Ames, Alyson ^a   Epstein, Laurence M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Pacing; Surgery

Indexed keywords

LEAD; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; HUMAN; LASER; OPERATION DURATION; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PULMONARY ARTERIAL EMBOLIZATION; PULMONARY ARTERY; SPECTRANETICS CARDIAC LEAD REMOVAL SYSTEM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOGENICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 33745944712     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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